Ivan Letlev

Commissar Letlev was the commander of the Red Army 13th Guards Rifle Division during World War II.

Biography
Commissar Letlev was a political commissar of the Soviet Union, holding a high rank in the Russian Communist Party as one of its faces. Letlev was a cruel leader, known for his executions of "coward" soldiers (soldiers who were either literal cowards, soldiers who did not obey his orders, did not kill enough Germans, or soldiers who were poor-quality) and German prisoners. On 17 December 1941 he took command of the 13th Guards Rifle Division and trained his troops before they were sent to defend Stalingrad. His army went from using potatoes as practice grenades due to lack of adequate supplies to being a major unit of the Red Army, with his division capturing Pavlov's House from the Wehrmacht and the Spanish Division Azul. Letlev's fate after 1942 is unknown.